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noun a shoulder-shaped frame with a hook at the top, usually of wire, wood, or plastic, for draping and hanging a garment when not in use. a part of something by which it is hung , as a loop on a garment. a contrivance on which things are hung , as a hook. Automotive a double-hinged device linking the chassis with the leaf springs on vehicles having solid axles.
a light saber of the 17th and 18th centuries, often worn by sailors.
a person who hangs something. Origin of hanger 1400–50; late Middle English hangere; see
hang ,
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Related Words for hangers blade ,
dagger ,
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cutlass ,
rapier ,
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broadsword ,
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claymore ,
falchion ,
backsword ,
scimitar ,
toledo ,
dirk ,
bilbo Examples from the Web for hangers Contemporary Examples of hangers The center-right hedge fund clique known as Third Way, and associated Blue Dogs and hangers on.
The café can sit about 20 people, has a cozy atmosphere, beautiful paintings and hangers for scarves and manteaux.
Hangers on who get in touch with girls and still write things like, ‘If you get into the industry you can make $20,000 a month.’
Historical Examples of hangers They are the pothooks and hangers of surgery, and I have gone that far.
The other fellows are just hangers on—camp followers, so to speak.
Bosco Blithers, professor of penmanship and author of “Pot-hooks and Hangers .”
Some ran to the guns, others got hold of their hangers and small-arms.
“If we do, we must keep one eye open and our hangers by our sides,” observed Tubbs.
British Dictionary definitions for hangers noun any support, such as a hook, strap, peg, or loop, on or by which something may be hung See coat hanger a person who hangs something (in combination ) paperhanger a bracket designed to attach one part of a mechanical structure to another, such as the one that attaches the spring shackle of a motor car to the chassis
a wood on a steep hillside, characteristically beech growing on chalk in southern England
a loop or strap on a sword belt from which a short sword or dagger was hung the weapon itself Show More
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Word Origin and History for hangers n. early 15c., "one who hangs (something)," especially "hangman;" agent noun of hang (v.). Meaning "something that is suspended" is late 15c. Meaning "thing from which something is hung" is from 1690s. Specifically of coat or dress hangers from 1873. Hanger-on is from 1540s.
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